Texas: Joey Logano preview

Huntersville, N.C. -- Home field advantage is always a topic of
conversation in any sport. Your home crowd can lift you up and act as
another member of your team. To further elevate its importance, Major
League Baseball plays its all-star game...

Huntersville, N.C. -- Home field advantage is always a topic of
conversation in any sport. Your home crowd can lift you up and act as
another member of your team. To further elevate its importance, Major
League Baseball plays its all-star game for home field advantage in the
World Series. In the tough games, when the chips are down, you want it
on your side.

Texas Motor Speedway is a long way from Joey Logano's hometown of
Middletown, CT and his current residence in Huntersville, N.C, but he
will enjoy such an "advantage" when he arrives there for this
weekend's O'Reilly 300. Grapevine, Texas is a short drive from
the racetrack. It is the home of GameStop, the world's largest
video game and software entertainment retailer and Nationwide Series
sponsor for Logano and the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. When the
green flag falls on Saturday, the stands will be filled with GameStop
employees cheering on their favorite driver in hopes that Logano can make
a return trip to victory lane, as he did at the Kentucky Speedway last
year, in their colors.

The saying is that "everything is bigger in Texas." A win on
Saturday would have to rank among the biggest of Logano's
career.

Joey Logano:

"The last time we raced at Texas we ran well in the GameStop
Toyota. We finished fourth and had a really strong car. We qualified
well, too. Our speedway stuff at Joe Gibbs Racing is as good as
anyone. Going back to Texas for a second time now we know where we need
to be. I know the feeling that I'm looking for in the car and
having that experience is nice."

"It seems like a lot of the 1.5-mile tracks like Charlotte, Atlanta
and this weekend at Texas, you come off the corner and the track flattens
out. The banking is just not there for you. They are all different in
how they do it, but at all of them you end up flat and you can lose the
nose or the rear of the car throughout a run. In the Nationwide race
last fall, we all ran the bottom because that was the fast way
around."

"The great thing about racing at Texas is we have a big fan base with
the GameStop headquarters just down the road in Grapevine. There should
be a lot of employees at the race and it will be good to hang out with
those guys for a bit. They are great to work with and it's cool to
represent them all across the country, but especially here at their home
track."

Chassis Info
Primary: JGR #2089, Logano drove this chassis to a third place finish at the Auto
Club Speedway in February.